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bin

/ˈbɪn/

bin noun: a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. Also the ellipsis of loony bin.

bin: a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container
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Noun (1)

bin (plural bins)

  1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
    • a corn bin
    • a wine bin
  2. A container for rubbish or waste.
    • a rubbish bin
    • a wastepaper bin
  3. Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
  4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
  5. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
    • Free up my G's locked in the bin
      Jail house comin' like subs
      one comes out then one goes in2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)
  6. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

  1. (UK, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
    • He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, →ISBN, page 28
  2. (UK, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
    • This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59
    • The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 238
  3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
    • to bin wine

Noun (2)

bin

  1. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

Proper noun capitalized: Bin

Bin (plural Bins)

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Also used as

bin is also the ellipsis of loony bin.

bin is also the contraction of being.

bin is also the alternative form of been.

bin is also the clipping of binary.

bin meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

bin in Hindi

container used for storage
डिब्बा ḍibbā, बक्सा baksā
container for rubbish
कचरा पात्र kacrā pātra, कूड़ेदान kūṛedān

bin in Marathi

बिन

bin in Bengali

বিন

bin in Telugu

బిన్, కు బిన్
More languagesFewer languages
bin in Malayalam
ബിൻ, ടോ ബിൻ
bin in Kannada
ಬಿನ್, ಬಿನ್ಗೆ
bin in Punjabi
ਬਿੰਨ
bin in Odia
ବିନ୍, ବିନ
bin in Nepali
डस्टबिन ḍasṭbin
bin in Arabic
مَزْبَلَة mazbalah

Examples of bin in a sentence

  • British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  • NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:

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Synonyms of bin

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All synonyms of bin

Forms of bin

Noun
pluralbins
Verb
third-person singular presentbins
present participlebinning
past participlebinned
pastbinned
Proper noun
pluralBins

Plural of bin: bins

Origin of bin

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Contraction of being.

Words formed from bin

Phrases with bin

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Words that rhyme with bin

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Questions about bin

What does bin mean?
Bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
What is bin in Hindi?
Bin in Hindi is डिब्बा (ḍibbā), बक्सा (baksā), कचरा पात्र (kacrā pātra). See Bin meaning in Hindi.
How do you use bin in a sentence?
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.
What part of speech is bin?
Bin can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bin?
Bin is pronounced /ˈbɪn/.
What is the plural of bin?
The plural of bin is bins.

Words near bin in the dictionary

  1. bims
  2. Bimshire
  3. bimucronate
  4. bimunicipal
  5. bimuscular
  6. bin
  7. bin bag
  8. bin bags
  9. bin chicken
  10. bin chickens
  11. bin day

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bin (page history and authors); Bin (page history and authors); bin (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bin (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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